"Hard-up school support staff are being discriminated against by these term time-only contracts. They miss out on more than 4,000 each every single year. The teachers they work with don't have to put up with it, nor do the council workers they are lumped together with for wages."
"Research by the GMB union revealed that if teaching assistants, cleaners, caterers, and administrative personnel received pay for a full 52 weeks instead of 44, their annual wages could rise by as much as 4,094. The union, representing more than 100,000 school support staff, calculated that this collective shortfall for approximately 800,000 workers on term-time contracts amounted to 2.2 billion for the 2024/25 period."
School support staff across the UK, including teaching assistants, cleaners, caterers, and administrative personnel, face significant financial disadvantage through term-time-only contracts. Analysis by the GMB union reveals that approximately 800,000 workers receive pay for only 44 weeks annually instead of 52 weeks, resulting in a collective shortfall of £2.2 billion for the 2024/25 period. Individual workers could earn up to £4,094 more annually with full-year contracts. The GMB union, representing over 100,000 school support staff, argues this constitutes discrimination, noting that teachers and council workers do not face similar restrictions. Union representatives have called for pay restructuring to address this disparity.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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